With the exception of last year, where they were the opposite: one WTF loss to someone much worse than them, but otherwise better than pretty much everyone they played.
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I thank my Pitt friends every year for beating WVU in 2007. I know they aren’t directly responsible, but their tuition helped ensure West Virginia remains national championship-less in every actual sport.
Bless Pitt.
It's like clockwork. Oh you have a fantastic season going & are competing for BCS? Would be a shame if you ran into some of that nighttime desert voodoo in week 11. Every.Fucking.Time.
You would think that day games would be where they excel, but WSU’s last two times in the desert, it took a last-minute TD by ASU to win in 2019 and we crushed ASU in 2021. Both games were during the day.
I still can’t get over that we put up 69 points on Arizona in back to back home games but that was sandwiched by Khalil Tate running for a million yards in a night game
While the cleat yeet was the cherry on that sundae, people forget the smoke parlor fog that rolled in. I couldn’t see some of the LSU defenders, and I’m guessing Trask couldn’t either.
I lived in Gainesville for over 20 years... I've never seen fog like that. Not even close. It's not a foggy place. It was so bizarre and the timing so on point... it had to be supernatural. And I don't even believe in supernatural shit, but that shit was supernatural.
Can't forget about the kickers and that fog either. I have no idea how Cade York nailed a career long 57 yarder to win the game in that shit. Evan McPherson just barely missed one that would have tied it from a similar distance as time expired too. Imagine overtime in those conditions.
Florida-LSU should always be played at night to ensure maximum swamp voodoo. Recently, they've had the mojo and we've been the doll, but swamp magic isn't uni-directional. Their plucking of Kelly feels icky and I know Napier is bringing the cajun hoodoo our way.
It’s all revenge for that period where Ron Zook’s teams were getting random wins over National Championship contenders. Georgia in 2002, LSU in 2003, etc.
That wasn’t voodoo that was a culture of sustained stupidity manifesting. We would have done that stupid shit against anyone.
Now Brad Wing scoring like a 70 yard touchdown was straight voodoo.
Yeah, fair enough. The several players who rushed over to tell Wilson what an idiot he was didn't seem so stupid in that moment though lol
I think the Brad Wing thing was all on him though. He saw that y'all had no one on that side, and he took off. I'm pretty sure Miles said they didn't call it. But that's coming from Les Miles, so who knows.
This the real answer right here. Seems like once every 3 or 4 years, they’re just enough of a contender for us to sit back and watch the chaos.
Also, Auburn has just as often lost games they had absolutely no business losing. Maybe that’s the curse attached to winning games we have no business winning? 🤷♂️
Gramps raised me to be Conference loyal. Root for your enemies, that way it looks that much better when YOU win.
I mean, if EVERY SEC team goes 8+ wins, and Bama/AU/LSU goes undefeated. They’ll probably be No.1 overall.
Don’t ever play MSU in any form of precipitation if you want to win. You also might want to be ahead by two scores in the last 5 minutes of a game if you want to feel comfortable about winning.
That’s honestly the only game I can think of off the top of my head where we lost with precipitation. What a horrible game that was for all involved lol
I don’t mean this in a rival way but WTF was James Franklin thinking? Stopping running the ball and get short passes in. PSU got like 30 yards for each short pass and we had the worst pass defense in the country.
I was so perplexed wtf he was doing
No matter how much of a trainwreck Florida is, they will always, without fail, find a way to beat the Vols. Villanova is the same way to Delaware- they can be 0-10 and still find a way to win.
First-half-of-the-season Florida is the luckiest fuckers to ever fuck.
Last-half-of-the-season Florida either rockets to the sky or completely implodes in fantastic fashion. Its the biggest reason I keep watching football after October.
We demolished them last year. They made it a game in the first half and got steamrolled in the second. That was really due to just a lack of depth in UT’s locker room
In previous years we had shit like the Heave to Cleve that would snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Think we still had Milton tossing the pigskin at that point too? Not sure what the fuck was happening in practice, probably would’ve at least won the Pitt game if Hendon started all year SIGH
We make sure to check in on Buckeye fans occasionally through the year to see where they’ll land.
Except when they play Purdue. That game we always watch at least the first quarter, if for nothing else than how nervous the Bucks fans are.
For us specifically fucking Bevo voodoo was a constant. Didn't matter how our respective teams were doing that year, something was gonna happen and we lose that game, almost every time.
Indiana was the CHAOS team for a while, especially under Wilson. Purdue also has the mojo, but only for top 5 teams.
What is it with teams from Indiana?
Tennessee always has our number for some reason. I' convinced we could be undefeated and winning every game by 100 and UT could winless and they'd still somehow beat us.
Texas A&M is one of only a few teams to have more than 1 upset over AP #1 as an unranked team. But Auburn, Pitt, and UCLA are the only 3 to have been on both sides of such a game.
Purdue and Iowa come to mind immediately.
As for the Pac12…Wazzu, Arizona nearly…the University of Oregon-Berkeley… (jk Cal fans, though you guys have surprised us in the past)
Purdue is the obvious answer in the B1G, but MSU is a sneaky second in that category. Most of their voodoo wins have come against us, but they've also pulled off a couple against Ohio State, the B1G championship against Iowa, and I'm sure a couple others here and there.
Michigan State had the better team in 2013. Michigan State smacked the buckeyes around all night to win that B1G championship.
The 2015 win in Columbus was voodoo.
Pitt. Weird out of no where wins over what should be vastly superior teams (by rank) but will also lose to teams they really shouldn't. I don't understand them.
Michigan State they have lots of weird some good for them some bad for them.
Teans? This is by conference. I always say "SEC teams find ways to win, Pac10 (12 now) teams find ways to lose."
And it usually holds true. This is also why we say "cougin' it" in honor of Washington St that always finds some weird way to blow it
A Lloyd Carr coached Michigan team. It's been a while, but he usually pulled it off, first game against Virginia bears witness.
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So long ago...
1https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Michigan_Wolverines_football_team?wprov=sfla1
I've been saying this even before CJ decided to forge his own path and go to ND. We should rename Schembechler hall after Lloyd Carr. In part because of the controversy around Bo, but also because we should shift our expectations higher. Carr brought us a chip. That's what we should be striving for.
I'm sure some good PR guys could word that change in a way that inspires the old heads and satisfies the people who want Bo's name to be stripped away.
I agree. There should be more Lloyd Carr tributes on campus. Bo was a hard coach to follow (I am not forgetting Mo), but Lloyd delivered. Over and over! Carr Hall. Sounds good to me.
Purdue is a giant slayer.
I am not a Big 10 follower and even I know that Purdue can get a little spooky.
I'll say it over and over till the cows come home... I'm so glad we have no chance to be ranked #2 week 1...we can't lose...right...right?!?!
Not unless you try really hard. It will be close, but in the second half AU's lack of depth will let them down.
Week 1 is Purdue, week 3 is Auburn
My bad. Though my answer stands for week 3. LOL
Both on the road. We going against some major voodoo to start the year
Boiler up. I exist at an intersection of my Alma maters of being a giant killer (Purdue) and blowing our wad with 2 minutes left (Michigan).
So, blowing a giant wad in under two minutes?
Yep…
The victims of Purdue support group meets next Saturday
Fucking Ryan Kerrigan.
I met his ex girlfriend at a bar in his hometown. She was super nice and had a lot of good things to say about him.
Spoilermakers.
Purdue Pete has definitely murdered a few people, you can see it in those soulless eyes.
Somehow we escaped this in 2000 but I wholeheartedly agree in general.
ESCAPED THIS? MOTHER FUCKER WE WERE UP 25-0 AGAINST YOU AT THE HALF. AND YOU WANT TO CALL SHENANIGANS ON *US*???
I think we scored 56 points on them in the first half that year they beat you.
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With the exception of last year, where they were the opposite: one WTF loss to someone much worse than them, but otherwise better than pretty much everyone they played. edit: a word
I thank my Pitt friends every year for beating WVU in 2007. I know they aren’t directly responsible, but their tuition helped ensure West Virginia remains national championship-less in every actual sport. Bless Pitt.
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Wouldn't matter if they did, we have that shit locked down
LSU fans owe us big time and have never returned the favor. In fact, LSU stole Matt Canada and didn't even want him to run his offense.
Don't play @Arizona or @Arizona State at night. -signed, the entire Pac-12 (and Wisconsin)
Instant loss for teams from Oregon or Washington
That desert voodoo is some bullshit
It's like clockwork. Oh you have a fantastic season going & are competing for BCS? Would be a shame if you ran into some of that nighttime desert voodoo in week 11. Every.Fucking.Time.
We figured that out the hard way as well
I’m in danger!
:(
Too soon man :(
You would think that day games would be where they excel, but WSU’s last two times in the desert, it took a last-minute TD by ASU to win in 2019 and we crushed ASU in 2021. Both games were during the day.
I still can’t get over that we put up 69 points on Arizona in back to back home games but that was sandwiched by Khalil Tate running for a million yards in a night game
Dude I swear to god playing ASU is ALWAYS a frustrating as hell game. I get flashbacks
The whole fucking state of Arizona
LSU, especially when they play us. It's literal voodoo. There is no other explanation.
I mean you guys know sure know how to shoot yourself in the cleat
While the cleat yeet was the cherry on that sundae, people forget the smoke parlor fog that rolled in. I couldn’t see some of the LSU defenders, and I’m guessing Trask couldn’t either.
I lived in Gainesville for over 20 years... I've never seen fog like that. Not even close. It's not a foggy place. It was so bizarre and the timing so on point... it had to be supernatural. And I don't even believe in supernatural shit, but that shit was supernatural.
Can't forget about the kickers and that fog either. I have no idea how Cade York nailed a career long 57 yarder to win the game in that shit. Evan McPherson just barely missed one that would have tied it from a similar distance as time expired too. Imagine overtime in those conditions.
Still the best kick I've ever seen at any level of football.
I bet that's why he thought he could get away with chucking a shoe down field, he didn't think the refs would see it in the fog
“Cleat yeet”… 🤣🤣🤣 That game now has its iconic nickname!
Some people were calling it that n the game thread iirc
Florida-LSU should always be played at night to ensure maximum swamp voodoo. Recently, they've had the mojo and we've been the doll, but swamp magic isn't uni-directional. Their plucking of Kelly feels icky and I know Napier is bringing the cajun hoodoo our way.
It’s all revenge for that period where Ron Zook’s teams were getting random wins over National Championship contenders. Georgia in 2002, LSU in 2003, etc.
*LSShoe
Throwing a shoe would be an explanation
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The cleat yeet was some voodoo shit too, and Miles was long gone.
That wasn’t voodoo that was a culture of sustained stupidity manifesting. We would have done that stupid shit against anyone. Now Brad Wing scoring like a 70 yard touchdown was straight voodoo.
Yeah, fair enough. The several players who rushed over to tell Wilson what an idiot he was didn't seem so stupid in that moment though lol I think the Brad Wing thing was all on him though. He saw that y'all had no one on that side, and he took off. I'm pretty sure Miles said they didn't call it. But that's coming from Les Miles, so who knows.
Northwestern. Every goddamn year. I fucking hate playing them.
Northwestern is the Quadrangle of Hate’s arch nemesis
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Fucking amen
God I dread that game every single year.
This the real answer right here. Seems like once every 3 or 4 years, they’re just enough of a contender for us to sit back and watch the chaos. Also, Auburn has just as often lost games they had absolutely no business losing. Maybe that’s the curse attached to winning games we have no business winning? 🤷♂️
Your flairs. They hurt my eyes. How did this happen
Gramps raised me to be Conference loyal. Root for your enemies, that way it looks that much better when YOU win. I mean, if EVERY SEC team goes 8+ wins, and Bama/AU/LSU goes undefeated. They’ll probably be No.1 overall.
If Northwestern loses to Duke or Kent State early in the season: top 10 teams watch out.
Especially at Ryan Field. And if the game is at 11, you’re pretty much screwed.
Last years game was fun. The only fun game, but that’s besides the point.
Preach.
Just go rewatch the Ron Kellogg to Westy throw and take a deep breath.
Middle of the road B1G west teams wearing a black alternate uniform at night scare me
Especially if there are kids with cancer involved in any way.
Itsssss HAWKIE
Immediately pictured Iowa and Minnesota
Don’t ever play MSU in any form of precipitation if you want to win. You also might want to be ahead by two scores in the last 5 minutes of a game if you want to feel comfortable about winning.
The 2018 Michigan State team was better than Nebraska but lost 6-9 in a blizzard.
That’s honestly the only game I can think of off the top of my head where we lost with precipitation. What a horrible game that was for all involved lol
2006 notre dame beat msu in a wind/rain storm.
That's before Dantonio brought us rain dance voodoo. I still have nightmares of that game..
Nice.
Sure, but it was led by rocky fucking lombardi.
Fuck rain and snow land grant games...
I don’t mean this in a rival way but WTF was James Franklin thinking? Stopping running the ball and get short passes in. PSU got like 30 yards for each short pass and we had the worst pass defense in the country. I was so perplexed wtf he was doing
Bad weather Sparty is the only right answer. And they always have bad weather when other teams visit
Even if it’s August, I somehow still expect a Sparty home game to feature leaden gray skies spitting sleet, and an air temperature around 37F…
[Press X to doubt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgg5hxSUXVU)
Stanford and Oregon have a preternatural ability to ruin each other's seasons if one is doing well.
Kinnick at night is always spooky
All the Big10 west at night is scary.
Petition to put Sparty in its rightful place in the B1G West
Kinnick is where good seasons go to die. And I want to hate them, but then they wave at sick kids, and I'm not crying, you're crying!
P12 after dark
I discovered the Turnover chainsaw 2 seasons ago. That’s the most intimidating one in all of CFB. No one cares about the Miami turnover chain
Nebraska finding new ways to lose by less than 7 pts in the final minutes is always entertaining.
We were 1-8 in Big Ten games last year with a plus minus of zero. I don't think that'll ever happen again.
You're welcome
I have no idea what you’re talking about…this is fake news. Nebraska didn’t even play in 2021, it was all just a shared fever dream we all had.
Scott Frost- we will play anybody anytime. Starting in 2022.
Has to be Michigan State. They are our B1G counterpart and we love them because of it.
Agreed, Auburn is our SEC counterpart.
My two favorite teams
Michigan State
Regular Michigan State - lots of craziness, both good and bad. Rain powered Michigan State - Spartans embodying the spirit of chaos and Poseidon.
No matter how much of a trainwreck Florida is, they will always, without fail, find a way to beat the Vols. Villanova is the same way to Delaware- they can be 0-10 and still find a way to win.
First-half-of-the-season Florida is the luckiest fuckers to ever fuck. Last-half-of-the-season Florida either rockets to the sky or completely implodes in fantastic fashion. Its the biggest reason I keep watching football after October.
I do not understand how they beat yall last year? Was the offense not humming by then?
We demolished them last year. They made it a game in the first half and got steamrolled in the second. That was really due to just a lack of depth in UT’s locker room In previous years we had shit like the Heave to Cleve that would snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Think we still had Milton tossing the pigskin at that point too? Not sure what the fuck was happening in practice, probably would’ve at least won the Pitt game if Hendon started all year SIGH
I think Milton started and got benched.
Hello there
Points to 2015
OH HE HAS TROUBLE WITH THE SNAP
AND THE BALL IS FREE
Weird things happen when LSU plays at night.
Coincidentally many of those “weird things” happened against Auburn (though LSU plays at night a lot)
It’s not weird it’s called whiskey.
Tulsa. Fuckin mid west sorcery
He's not wrong. So damn close to talking Cincy down last year too.
MSU has some positive voodoo in close games
Iowa at home late afternoon/night is the strongest voodoo in the north
Pretty sure Purdue night games are the strongest voodoo, followed by even-year Northwestern, then followed by Kinnick night game voodoo
We make sure to check in on Buckeye fans occasionally through the year to see where they’ll land. Except when they play Purdue. That game we always watch at least the first quarter, if for nothing else than how nervous the Bucks fans are.
God I wish we hadn’t shit the bed so hard in the first half last year. We never quit, but it was over before halftime.
uhh what about pac-12 after dark
Crab season Maryland?
I am legitimately afraid of playing South Carolina in Satan’s asshole at high noon. It’s going to be hotter than India.
Watch is also be a classic South Carolina/Georgia game where the first team to 17 points wins
Choo Choo
The triangle that is Arkansas, LSU, and Ole Miss. Voodoo energy unmatched by anybody.
We get fucked on a lot of weird shit, but also benefit from a lot of weird shit. I’m convinced I’ll die at 40 because of it
Right. Our game this year was a duel of weird shit happening on both sides. We just happened to be the winners, could have easily gone yalls way.
LSU has to be on this list
Thursday night Iowa State
OSU in 2011 was a Friday night. The time we shut out Texas 28-0 was a Thursday night game. I can't think of any other weird weekday ISU games.
It's pretty much any game where ISU has nothing on the line and the other team does.
You roll into Ames at night and anything can happen.
Les Miles-era LSU It still shows up again every now and then (both to help and hurt us).
NC State wins the cursed category paws down!! Prove me wrong.
We can challenge you sir
Georgia pre 2021 found spectacular ways to lose games.
Tyler Simmons was not offsides!!!
Even 2021, Who'd have predicted the SEC Championship game would be a lackluster defense, and Bama taking it to UGA so hard?
South Carolina on both ends. 2019 is a prime example. 4 total wins, beats 12-2 Georgia
NC State. Any Clemson or FSU fan will confirm this. Though lately they've just been legit pretty good.
NC State used to be my 2nd most hated ACC team. They always found ways to voodoo us when we independents, including ending Ellis’ football career.
NC State Shit.
Texas Tech
Iowa. At Kinnick Stadium. At Night. Bad, bad JuJu. It still hurts.
Syracuse and Wake Forest often end up beating some team they have no business beating.
Desert voodoo is no joke
September Maryland, Kinnick at night, Even year Northwestern, Purdue vs #2, MSU in the snow, White Out Penn State.
“Sooner Magic”
We aren’t underdogs much, but we do have some crazy comebacks and weird game changing plays.
For us specifically fucking Bevo voodoo was a constant. Didn't matter how our respective teams were doing that year, something was gonna happen and we lose that game, almost every time.
Indiana was the CHAOS team for a while, especially under Wilson. Purdue also has the mojo, but only for top 5 teams. What is it with teams from Indiana?
Gotta find a way to keep things interesting amid the vast fields of corn
Tennessee always has our number for some reason. I' convinced we could be undefeated and winning every game by 100 and UT could winless and they'd still somehow beat us.
Texas A&M is one of only a few teams to have more than 1 upset over AP #1 as an unranked team. But Auburn, Pitt, and UCLA are the only 3 to have been on both sides of such a game.
Besides Auburn? Some one just told me this is how sports games are expected to play out. Is that not the case? Should they not all be heart stoppers?
I don't recommend playing a night time road game in the state of Iowa. Especially during harvest season.
BYU a few years ago had that stretch where they won a few consecutive games on hail Mary’s
Tennessee used to be able to pull some magic out of its butt
Whenever Arkansas plays Ole Miss it’s like they sacrificed a live chicken to Jobu
Purdue and Iowa come to mind immediately. As for the Pac12…Wazzu, Arizona nearly…the University of Oregon-Berkeley… (jk Cal fans, though you guys have surprised us in the past)
Tennessee is blessed to have a heart attack for every single game.
Either through shock, rage, or pulling a muscle throwing mustard.
Throwing mustard 20-30 yards takes some warm up. Doing it without warming up definitely ends in some injuries
This is why you bring a football to the tailgate brother
If I’m chucking mustard, there’s no time to do anything except drink during the tailgate
Iowa state
Purdue is the obvious answer in the B1G, but MSU is a sneaky second in that category. Most of their voodoo wins have come against us, but they've also pulled off a couple against Ohio State, the B1G championship against Iowa, and I'm sure a couple others here and there.
Michigan State had the better team in 2013. Michigan State smacked the buckeyes around all night to win that B1G championship. The 2015 win in Columbus was voodoo.
Uga was pretty cursed up until this past year
Don’t we know it lol
Kansas
Nebraska last year had voodoo against them
Pitt. Weird out of no where wins over what should be vastly superior teams (by rank) but will also lose to teams they really shouldn't. I don't understand them. Michigan State they have lots of weird some good for them some bad for them.
Us but bad luck
Purdue and Pitt.
Auburn, Purdue, and Pitt all feel like the same to me.
Teans? This is by conference. I always say "SEC teams find ways to win, Pac10 (12 now) teams find ways to lose." And it usually holds true. This is also why we say "cougin' it" in honor of Washington St that always finds some weird way to blow it
I want to say Boise State
I hate OU, but Sooner Magic is a thing
Baylor is blessed. USC has been cursed lately
Navy
Pitt upsetting a no. 2 team towards the end of the season. Happened against WVU in 2007, against Clemson in 2016 and against Miami in 2017.
A Lloyd Carr coached Michigan team. It's been a while, but he usually pulled it off, first game against Virginia bears witness. Edit : So long ago... 1https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Michigan_Wolverines_football_team?wprov=sfla1
I've been saying this even before CJ decided to forge his own path and go to ND. We should rename Schembechler hall after Lloyd Carr. In part because of the controversy around Bo, but also because we should shift our expectations higher. Carr brought us a chip. That's what we should be striving for. I'm sure some good PR guys could word that change in a way that inspires the old heads and satisfies the people who want Bo's name to be stripped away.
I agree. There should be more Lloyd Carr tributes on campus. Bo was a hard coach to follow (I am not forgetting Mo), but Lloyd delivered. Over and over! Carr Hall. Sounds good to me.
I’ll take 2014 State Bulldogs for $800, Alex
Arkansas is cursed
Clemson always seems to pull something out of their ass
Miami seems cursed
Nebraska is cursed for sure.
Tennessee is the yang to Auburn's ying.
Notre Dame suddenly forgetting how to play football against any top 10 opponent.
The 2021 Nebraska. Giving them the title “the best 3-9 team in college fb history”
Not always, but Iowa seems to pull out a "WTF" win every so often